A Kent brewery has agreed a deal to add the brands of collapsed Somerset beer company Wild Beer Co to its portfolio.
Ashford-based Curious Brewery, which was itself acquired by private equity firm Risk Capital Partners in 2021 as part of a carve out from wine business Chapel Down, said the agreement would double the size of its existing operation.
Wild Beer Co fell into administration in December after facing what it described as "adverse trading conditions", including the pandemic, rising inflation, the loss of export sales and spiralling production costs. The company was established in 2012 by friends Andrew Cooper and Brett Ellis, who also ran a taproom - Wild Beer - at Bristol's Wapping Wharf.
